Miles M18 question

Nice colour video from the RAF Jever website showing Brian Iles with the a/c and G/C Powell Sheddon (whos name may be familiar to some readers)

http://www.rafjever.org/93sqnpic656.htm

Not trying to answer the op question but just parking this quote here….

Great videos there. Thanks for posting 🙂

The year its registration was no longer active?

Was still registered and airworthy at Strathallan and then Perth into the 1980s.

Have been pointed towards these –

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=AHKY

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AHKY-1.pdf

which seem to confirm the Brian Iles connection.

Nice colour video from the RAF Jever website showing Brian Iles with the a/c and G/C Powell Sheddon (whos name may be familiar to some readers)

http://www.rafjever.org/93sqnpic656.htm

Not trying to answer the op question but just parking this quote here….

Miles M.18 Mark II, HM545, in flight, March 1943. Registered as U8 in 1939, then U0224 when undergoing Air Ministry acceptance trials, HM545 was returned to Miles Aircraft Ltd and used for communications duties during the Second World War. It was given the civilian registration G-AHKY in 1946.

On the cowling of the Miles M18 Mk II at East Fortune it reads – Ex U-0224 HM545 1946 – 1970. It reverted to the civil registration G-AHKY in 1946 but can anyone tell me what the 1970 relates to?

The year its registration was no longer active?

Hello David,

I did wonder if it was connected to Sqn Ldr Brian Iles ownership but it seems a bit obscure. I think it has changed a bit over the years as it seems to have had more wording when it was at Strathallan. Unfortunatley my pic from back then is a bit fuzzy!

It was owned by Mr Iles from 1948 to very late in 1969 . I cannot see any other reasoning for it.